The Negative Effects Of Cheating In High Schools

Grades tend to be more hurtful than anything. They have negative effects on students and how they learn. Cheating can become a series problem even with students who normally wouldn’t cheat. “Researchers have found that the more students are

Cheating used to be considered an unmentionable sin. However, in this day and age, it has become more common and somewhat of a daily occurrence. Cheating is more widespread today than in the past. According to the article titled Education: The New Morality, cheating has not been an issue of values, but simply one of practicality. This shows that many view cheating as a mere occurrence and something that can often be skipped over. The reason cheating has become such a pervasive movement is because many students tend to rationalize their cheating behavior. A common rationalization that many students use is, " That 's the only way I 'll get anywhere in life." Many students also tend to incorporate reasons, such as parental pressures,

Additionally, late into this year the teacher of AP physics 1 caught a large group cheating on a quiz, yet did not catch them when they were cheating throughout the earlier part of the year. Because the teacher was not able to catch them earlier in the year, the honor code was proven ineffective to many students who observed that group cheating. So many students have observed that you can get away with cheating which will make them more likely to engage in cheating because there are very low consequences. The honor system needs to be revised so that teachers are able to catch cheaters when they start cheating because that will raise the expectations of getting caught if a student tries to

The student becomes a sort of “accessory,” or “accomplice of crime”. That notion is not a solution to solving the problem of cheating, instead, it instills guilt, and consequently stress, into students who could have seen something they may not have wanted to see. Students should not be the police; it is not their responsibility. Although, it is there responsibility to discourage cheating. If a student wants to inform a superior about cheating, that should be the student’s choice, and should be based the student’s own conviction, not because they do not want to be

If the adults don’t set an example for the students, then the students will continue to disregard moral standard and believe that cheating is acceptable. They need to show that it's an unjust crime because the students who cheated are receiving the same grade as those who were honest and hardworking. Cheating is not only fair, but will also grow into a habit that will greatly impede their future. In the end, the students will not be able to function in society if they are incapable of learning. The high grades they obtained from cheating will fulfill their parent’s expectations and gain an acceptance into college, but it will restrain them from progressing in the real world. If the parents truly wanted what’s best for them, then they must guide their children onto the right path by preventing the growth of

For many students, failure is not an option. Their need to succeed outweighs the risk of getting caught while cheating. In her article, “College Cheating: Success Above Honor”, Carla Rivera writes, “Studies find that students feel under more pressure than ever to succeed and increasingly see cutting corners

ABC NEWS, the author of A Cheating Crisis In America's Schools, states "technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays" Technology, is very useful to learn, but students are using it to find better ways to cheat (ABC NEWS). I believe cheating is practice in all school levels. Therefore , when student go to college, they think it would be easier to cheat instead of studying.

Solution of cheating culture is honor codes and techniques for academic integrity which are important parts of the solution. It is the responsibility of students as well as faculty and administration to establish an environment where honest students do not feel that they are at risk or disadvantage. “Just as cheating can become normalized at a school, so too can academic integrity efforts move the pendulum in the other direction and create a climate where cheating is not cool” (Callahan, 2005). Academic integrity and

Cheating has been an ongoing procedure that has been occurring since before I was born. This has been a problem for years and continues being so as cheating is becoming more and more common. In the article by LA Times, ¨Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society¨ (August 22, 1999) written by Mari Pearlman, she explains how adults want teachers to punish students for cheating although they are doing the same thing, only in different ways. I agree with Mari Pearlman´s analysis on what she has to say about cheating because still to this day, it is all true.

When asking a student do they think cheating is bad most will say yes and will even admit to cheating.Cheating doesn’t affect many students on a regular day basis until they have been caught red-handed.When it comes to cheating blame automatically goes to the student but what about the adult as well.Some teachers have admitted to seeing student cheat but haven't said anything because it was on homework.Some teachers have even gone to the depth of helping a student cheat on a test.There was a survey that was taken through all of the high schools asking students if they had ever cheated on a test, the results were that there were 64 percent who cheated,58 who plagiarised, and above all 95 percent of them admitted to cheating of some sort.(Academic Integrity Under Statistics paragraph 3 )Students cheat to make it through a semester and to make their parents proud.Students cheat simply because of lack of knowledge, pressure from the adult looking for them to do their best, and last lack of time.

Students from my high school, Myojo Gakuen high school know that cheating is unacceptable. Yet, they cheated on quizzes or exams by using cell phones, bringing small pieces of paper with answers of test, or teaching answers to other students behind the teacher was back during the test. Not all students cheated on quizzes and exams; however, some students often cheated on quizzes and exams. One of my classmates, for example, used to cheat a lot. Even the teachers kept telling him to not cheat on quizzes and exams, he could not stop cheating. He always did not have a confidence that he could get a great score without cheating because he did not study a lot, and he made excuses why he cheated on the test to the teachers every time the he was caught cheating on quizzes or exams. At the end, his mother came to school and the teachers told his mother what he always did during the tests and he finally stopped cheating. Other students at Myojo Gakuen high school did not care about those students who cheated on the tests unless they made noise or interrupted to other student’s forces during the test. Additionally, the students who did not cheat on the tests thought that it was each student’s decision and responsibility that if they wanted to cheat on the tests or not. Students at LaGuardia Community College, on the other hand,

It has caused many problems in the educational setting. There has been a big effort to reduce it, but not big enough. There has not been one effective way to completely stop cheating. Maybe everyone was just trying too hard. Sometimes it is the simplest methods that do the most damage. Academic cheating is not only at one specific education level. Academic cheating is at every single education level. It is present in middle school, high school, college, graduate school, and even in the workplace. It has never seemed to stop. Even when people know the consequences of cheating, they still do it. A quote from John Click from his article in the New York Times from Daniel Lee’s article he stated, “As an undergraduate, I see fellow students cheating all the time, often without any remorse at all. But cheating in our schools is symptomatic of cheating throughout our society." (Lee 1). I think if every education setting implemented the monitoring method, the amount of cheating would decrease

After reading “Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating” by Vivian Yee, I can wholeheartedly agree with the opinions and facts presented in the article. Why? The cheating described, whether light or serious, is prevalent in the schools that I have attended. The goal of attending a prestigious university and obtaining a prestigious job has led to a craze over grades, to the point where students describe the feeling as “...addictive, in a bad way, in a sick way” (Yee 20). Similarly, the craze over better grades has led to various actions of cheating such as plagiarism and copying of answers. As stated in the article, cheating has become such a prevalent and normal aspect of schools today that the “lines are blurry”, and that no one really knows what

Academic learning in today’s changing world brings demands to future professionals. Whether in a traditional classroom, or through distance learning, one thing is similar and which cannot bring forth a successful educational future. One thing that can damage anyone’s academic future is plagiarism. Whether being the future of a straight “A” student, or a student who is just getting by. The fact remains that anyone can fall victim to plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of other writer’s words without acknowledging the source and taking those words and passing them off as one’s own ideas (Jones, 2001). Some people may think plagiarism is just copying someone else’s work but in reality plagiarism is much serious and hold very serious

To sum it up, cheating is getting worse and schools aren’t taking action. I think cutting test out, making lectures fun, and assigning less homework would help prevent this problem. In the end we're gonna remember the grade we got in that class, instead of the important things we learned in